Presently looking for parents of (1) John McKay Anderson b. 12 May 1794 Pennsylvania, d. 1 Feb 1864 Chester County, PA (ID 82214183), and (2) his wife Lydia Melrath b. 9 Dec. 1797 Pennsylvania, d. 24 March 1882 Chester County, PA (ID 82214340). They had five children, Mary Ann (1815), Ann Jane (1824), Amanda (1828), Alfred (1831), and William (1839). See also mentions in letter #268 and its notes of their daughter Amanda and her husband George Fell Roberts in Richard Upsher Smith, Jr.'s _A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence_ (Lehigh U. Press, 2023), pp. 403-411.

Presently looking for parents of (1) John McKay Anderson b. 12 May 1794 Pennsylvania, d. 1 Feb 1864 Chester County, PA (ID 82214183), and (2) his wife Lydia Melrath b. 9 Dec. 1797 Pennsylvania, d. 24 March 1882 Chester County, PA (ID 82214340). They had five children, Mary Ann (1815), Ann Jane (1824), Amanda (1828), Alfred (1831), and William (1839). See also mentions in letter #268 and its notes of their daughter Amanda and her husband George Fell Roberts in Richard Upsher Smith, Jr.'s _A Quaker Colonel, His Fiancée, and Their Connections: Selected Civil War Correspondence_ (Lehigh U. Press, 2023), pp. 403-411.